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Fascinating story! Your x-ray vision manager: what (interview) questions or criteria did she use?

Condo rental pool is a term I've never come across before. What rental pool service did you use?

Exactly

> Apollo's founder isn't even trying to sustain his business. Good call out. It's like the business equivalent of: You changed the rules of the game because you didn't like how I p…

I wouldn't take it personally You know the real circumstances True hurtful one-stars is a rival who's mad at your book release And got their buddies to spam the system w/ garbage r…

The customer that gives a $.25 tip on bad service Hurtful garbage yes But still a gift

I saw a poll once re: 5-star rating systems: Roughly 50% tolerate or like them The other 50% completely hate them

Will Karat be around after the AI revolution? I wouldn't be surprised if an OpenAI + Zoom solution makes Karat obsolete. I, for one, won't shed any tears. I've wasted too much time…

I use Zoho for email along with https://workspace.google.com/essentials/ Works beautifully I do miss Gmail, but it's easy to workaround it

gregw134 nailed it

I talked to a friend about what's she's seeing inside Google right now and the amount of corporate and cultural dysfunction is shocking. Politics, games, entitlement, and decreased…

Agreed. The level of naysaying on Bing + GPT (along with ChatGPT) is absurd.

One CEO (and company) has joy. The other one does not. I know which one I'd rather join.

> they have a wider pool from which to choose This goes both ways for employer and employee

Can you elaborate on these "two really good ones?" What did they do that made them so special?

Unfortunately I don't think it's that easy. That is, the cat is out of the bag: ChatGPT not only showed us the power of AI, but it showed us a bunch of non-AI things like: - Ad-fre…

Can you ask your boss to expense it?

This is definitely tone deaf. Who cares if you were held the lead in the first leg of the marathon? All that matters is who's in the lead now and who's in the lead at the finish.

I doubt it. It feels more like the end of an era. All the so called "cool" technologies from FAANG names in the last 15 years have lost its luster. There's a new set of companies t…

Yes, there's an opportunity cost to society. That overhired person who's not productive in Google could have done something better for society.

While companies backing out sucks, this is a downward spiral. If companies get wind of candidates doing this in mass, they can escalate the game even further. That is, make offers …

Same thing with these super generous severance packages. 3 months, 4 months... Companies in the US don't have to give any.

It wouldn't surprise me if the gap begins to reverse. The earlier comment about competent plumbers making more than doctors in Slovenia; I can believe that. It's the white collar c…

That's overreading the situation. Employees are exhausted and their employers were only one part of the equation. COVID and other personal issues are the others. Thanks to healthy …